![]() ![]() If you don’t have it and you are at all a hip-hop fan or an aficionado of 20th century songcraft, you should not wait to purchase a copy at your earliest opportunity. Its influence cannot readily be overstated, and that’s something that even the compilers of this fatuous anniversary edition can’t tarnish. Straight Outta Compton is one of the single most important albums of the last 25 years. Obviously, that fact is moot when considering the quality of the music itself. This re-release is definitely the latter. ![]() were never ones to mince words, so I won’t either. On the one hand you’ve got albums that have fallen out of print, are hard to find, or were never been adequately remastered and will benefit from updated sound and on the other, you’ve got blatant cash grabs. The fact is that there are two types of re-releases in the music world. I don’t really know why these were added to the re-release, they add nothing in the way of intrinsic value. The less said about Mac 10 and WC’s versions of “Dopeman” and “If It Ain’t Ruff” the better. Bone Thugs-N-Harmony’s version of “Fuck the Police” is pretty fun, but Snoop Dogg and C-Murder’s “Gangsta Gangsta” is the definition of unnecessary. songs, and a live recording of “Compton’s ‘N The House”. In lieu of the few bonus tracks added to the modest 2002 release, they have instead included four covers of N.W.A. The excuse this time is the album’s 20th Anniversary (although, truth be told, they’re almost a year early, seeing as how it was originally released in August of 1988). It was, in short, the last copy of Straight Outta Compton anyone should have had to buy.īut here were are, five years later, celebrating another release of the same album. The extras were “Extended” mixes of “Express Yourself” and the title track which added a whopping (!) 20-30 seconds to the running length of each track, a nice three-minute “Bonus Beats” from the original vinyl release, and “A Bitch Iz a Bitch”, from N.W.A.’s “first” album, the aptly titled N.W.A. ![]() The second edition did a good job of fattening-out the occasionally tinny early CD sound, and added a handful of superfluous but attractive bonus tracks. I had the initial CD pressing, and purchased the 2002 remastered version as well. This is the third copy of this record I’ve owned in the space of just a decade. ![]()
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